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Justin is a teenager boy, who has an oral obsession with his thumb. His mother seems to be a normal housekeeper, but she has her own obsessions as well, like a crush on a TV-star. The only person who's aware of Justin's problem is his father, manager in a store, but none of his advices seem to be working for Justin. The kid is signed up in a debate workshop, but the thing isn't going well, because he has his mind in a pretty classmate and, of course, in his thumb, affecting all the rest of his classes. So, Justin is a loner kid in the school, who prefers to lock himself in the bathroom and suck his thumb. Justin'...
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s dentist, a mystical-hippie person, will try to help to overcome his thumb problem, through the hypnosis. But the school's psychologist will diagnose Justin with the Attention Deficit Disorder, and will prescribe him some drugs. Suddenly, Justin's problem with his thumb will disappear, becoming an hyperactive genius, winning several debate contests and the admiration from his teacher. Nevertheless, more serious problems will come for Justin with his mother, his father and with a drug addiction.
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Justin is al een tiener uit een excentrieke familie, maar hij zuigt nog steeds op zijn duim. In een poging hiervan af te komen gaat hij naar een leraar op school en vervolgens naar zijn hippie-achtige orthodontist. Die probeert hem onder hypnose van zijn gewoonte af te helpen. Maar zijn orale fixatie krijgt hij niet helemaal weg. Misschien is het slechts een uiting van een dieper liggende oorzaak?
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Christopher Plummer is superb as the 75-year-old who belatedly reveals his true sexuality to his sonSix years ago the American music-video director and graphic designer Mike Mills assembled a gifted cast (including Tilda Swinton , Vince Vaughn and Keanu Reeves ) to make his low-budget independent feature debut – a likable comedy called Thumbsucker set in Oregon. Its hero is Justin, a troubled teenager in the Holden Caulfield mould with difficult parents. His mother ( Tilda Swinton ) is a psychiatric nurse dreaming of an escape to romance in the big city, his father a supermarket manager who had hoped to be a professional footballer. The diffident lad is given medication for an attention deficit disorder that temporarily transforms him into a confident near genius.It's an interesting, truthful little film, and Mills has now followed it up with an altogether remarkable picture set at the time he was making Thumbsucker , and with an
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